Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Van Cortlandt Park Sexual Exposer Caught

The Parks Department had gotten several complaints from the public and from park employees about a man touching himself in Van Cortlandt Park.

On Sunday alert PEP officers driving down Broadway spotted a red car with Virginia plates parked on the street at 252nd St. & Broadway that matched the description given by witnesses in previous encounters.

From the street officers could see a lone figure standing in the woods.

He was positioned about 50 feet from a pedestrian path where passersby including women and children were plainly in view.

The officers approached the man and caught him in the act. He was wearing a latex surgical glove. The officers found dozens of discarded surgical gloves all over the ground.

When Officers escorted the Spanish speaking 50 year-old man back to his car to retrieve his ID they found plastic gloves strewn all over his car including on the steering wheel. The key was in the ignition.